Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information and announcements.
2. The fifth graders need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday and Friday from now on.
3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.
4. Summer School letters were sent home on Tuesday, 5/9. They must be signed and returned by Friday, 5/12.
4. Summer School letters were sent home on Tuesday, 5/9. They must be signed and returned by Friday, 5/12.
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of May 8, 2017 Module 4 Week 3
READING:
Module 4: the fifth graders are reading Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat. Please make sure that you have completed reading your book.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (16 lessons are due Monday,5/8).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Tuesday, 5/9 (The Frog and the Mouse). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
The Middle Colonies
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Wednesday, May 10.
Vocabulary for the Week:
diversity, immigrant, Great Awakening, religious toleration, militia, Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday: Read pages 234-239. Answer the following questions on looseleaf. Due on Thursday, May 11.
1. Why did immigrants come to the Middle Colonies?
2. What was the Great Awakening?
3. How did the Middle Colonies differ from the New England Colonies?
4. What were some of the ways that Benjamin Franklin improved Philadelphia?
The new map is due on June 7.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 6
Module 4: the sixth graders are reading Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
You should have to read up to page 112 by Friday, 5/12.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (16 lessons are due Monday,5/8).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Tuesday, 5/9 (The Frog and the Mouse). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 7
Module 4: the seventh graders are reading The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman.
You have read up to page 111 by Friday, 5/12.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (16 lessons are due Monday,5/8).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Tuesday, 5/9 (The Revolutionary Rise of Abolitionists). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES-
Citizenship and the Constitution 1787-Present
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Wednesday, April 26
Vocabulary for the Week:
James Madison, majority rule, position, search warrant, due process, indict, double jeopardy, eminent domain
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB
ascertained-found out
assembly-holding meetings or demonstrating
infringed-taken away
prescribed-authorized
quartered-housed
warrants-written orders authorizing a person to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search
Tuesday: Read pages 216-221. On page 221, answer questions 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a (restate). Due Thursday, May 11.
The map will be due on June 7 (Europe).
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HOMEWORK GRADE 8
For Module 4, the eighth graders are reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition by Michael Pollan.
You have read up to page 114 by Friday, 5/12.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (16 lessons are due Monday,5/8).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Tuesday, 5/9 ("AUSTRIAN HEIR AND WIFE SHOT TO DEATH AFTER ESCAPING BOMBING ". Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Wednesday, May 10.
Vocabulary for the Week:
Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Teapot Dome scandal, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Model T, moving assembly line, Herbert Hoover
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB
incentive- something that encourages people to behave a certain way
Tuesday: Read pages 752-764. On page 757, answer question # 2b. On page 764, answer questions 2a, 4b, 4c. Due Thursday, May 11.
The map will be due on June 7 (New Jersey).
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Have a wonderful week and Happy Mother’s Day to all moms and grandmas!
